Word: quotidian
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...interest in America's pastoral wilderness would become a recurring theme in the series, especially in the color Sunday strips. (The publisher intends to reprint them separately.) The color Sundays reveal King's extraordinary visual imagination, often incorporating entirely fanciful, dreamlike scenarios and bizarre layouts that counter the quotidian nature of the daily strip. Even so, the black and white dailies, reprinted at more than twice the size of today's average strip, reveal King's remarkable penmanship and eye for detail...
...save a family farm and being hired out as the bodyguard of a paranoid rock star. Using the tropes of the superhero genre, where Concrete often finds himself thrust into life-or-death adventures, Chadwick weaves in broader themes of the environment and social issues, along with the humorous quotidian details of Concrete's life as a walking boulder, such as his difficulties with unsupportive furniture...
...weather. Programmed by its owner, Nabaztag (rabbit in Armenian) relays the information in a slightly cartoonish female voice, and flashes colored lights on her tummy when new e-mails arrive. The wi-fi rabbit, which also plays MP3s and MIDI files and dances a jig, flags these quotidian needs in order to reduce time spent in front of the computer. "Nabaztag is a way to stay connected without burnout," explains Violet co-founder Olivier M?vel. Its creators wanted a noncomputer form for their invention, and a bunny fit the bill. "We wanted something that was cute, modest and not intimidating...
...furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder quotidian needs in order to reduce time spent in front of the computer. "Nabaztag is a way to stay connected without burnout," explains Violet co-founder Olivier Mével. Its creators wanted a noncomputer form for their invention, and a bunny fit the bill. "We wanted something that was cute...
...really a person; he's a plot device. But that's the way we want--need--these stories to be told, with frissons of black glamour and some risk factors. The emergence of distressingly ordinary W. Mark Felt returns the narrative to the quotidian. Which may not be such a bad thing. Various journalistic Pooh-Bahs are taking the occasion to remind us that journalism at its socially useful best must often rely on anonymous sources to do its job. Without them, it would be nothing but dubious celebrity interviews and reports on sewer-bond hearings. We also need reminding...